love-in-a-mist

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  1. noun A Mediterranean plant (Nigella damascena) having blue or whitish flowers surrounded by numerous threadlike bracts.

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  • It was love-in-a-mist -- one of those illumined pages of —  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
  • By the by, that particular flower you mention isn't only called love-in-a-mist, it's also called devil-in-a-bush. " —  The Dark Tower
  • I have planted bulbs of a Mentone creeper, love-in-a-mist, heather, sweet peas and canna seeds. —  Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
  • Milk-worts of all bright and tender tints combined with borage, iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snapdragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of Shiraz or of Cashmere never spread. —  New Italian sketches
  • I was once talking to a lady who had just come over from China, and who wore a dress of soft figured silk of the most perfect love-in-a-mist colour-shade which I had ever seen, even in turning over the wonder-drawers at Liberty's. —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
 

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